M. Forster
M. Forster
integrity character class
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.
book taste pudding
One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.
hypocrite thinking islands
The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.
love god power
God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.
feelings spiders feels
There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider.
love equality want
You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.
class worry support
I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me--a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.
long england novel
I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.
hurt fear people
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
humble people luck
Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged--well, one can't do all these things at once, worse luck, because they're so contradictory. It's then that proportion comes in--to live by proportion. Don't begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed...
believe passion way
Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature. Above all, it should never ask for leave where there is a right of way.
unhappy unbearable
It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.
believe teaching people
I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
thinking solitude events
This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong.